The app-based food delivery startup Glovo has been hit with a fresh fine from Spain’s labour ministry of 57 million euros ($62 million) for breaking labour laws, the agency announced on Tuesday (January 24). Glovo, which is owned by the German company Delivery Hero, received a penalty for not providing its riders with proper employment agreements […]
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Former United States President Donald Trump and his attorneys were ordered to pay more than $937,000 in sanctions for suing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over disputed assertions that the 2016 presidential elections were rigged. A US district judge John Middlebrooks, who discarded Trump’s lawsuit in September, said the sanctions were warranted because the former president […]
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US authorities said on Wednesday that they have arrested the majority shareholder and cofounder of Hong Kong-registered virtual currency exchange Bitzlato Ltd for allegedly processing $700 million in illicit funds. Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national living in China, was arrested in Miami on Tuesday on charges that he operated the exchange as an unlicensed money exchange business that “in […]
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Romanian police confiscated luxury automobiles and other assets linked to troubled influencer Andrew Tate on Saturday for an estimated $3.9 million. Among other offences, authorities have also charged Tate with human trafficking. In a statement, Romania’s National Agency for the Administration of Unavailable Assets reported that it had confiscated 15 luxury vehicles, 14 designer watches, […]
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US President Joe Biden apparently lived the life of his dreams after leaving the vice-president office in 2016 as he kept getting handsomely paid by the University of Pennsylvania for never teaching a class. Biden became an honorary professor at the Philadelphia school in 2017 and didn’t leave the position until becoming the president in […]
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Los Angeles will pay an African-American family USD 20 million nearly a century after it seized a beach from them. The land was returned to descendants of the original owners who were forced by the authorities to sell the prime parcel of land they owned. This forced seizure took place in 1920s when widespread racial […]
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The US budget 2023 or spending bill passed by the US Congress last week made a provision of $11 million for the Tibetan government in exile and Tibetan communities in India and Nepal. The budget made available “not less than $8,000,000” for programmes to promote and preserve Tibetan culture, language for Tibetan communities in India […]
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Facebook parent Meta has finally agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running privacy lawsuit that accused the social media app of allowing third parties to access users’ personal data. However, Facebook has not yet admitted any wrongdoing as a part of the settlement which still needs approval by the US judge, AFP reported. […]
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China is struggling with one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks the world has ever seen and it is expected to get worse. The Asian country is scrapping most of its Covid policies amid the emergence of Omicron subvariant BF.7 which led the daily number of cases in the country to rise. The is registering nearly […]
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The business that received two significant PPE contracts after Michelle Mone, a Conservative peer, recommended it to ministers is been sued by the UK government to collect more than £100 million. The claim, which has been approved by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), is for the entire £122 million (US$148 million) paid […]
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